Good News Last Week

In Hawaii a new law was passed that allows a mother to take home her placenta, or "iewe," and bury it under a tree. Yehey to Pinoy parents there. They can now bury ballpen (for the gift of writing), money (prosperity) or the picture of Tia Carrere or Jasmine Trias (fame). Scientists reported that ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes--such as mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels, and rabbitfish--could produce LSD-like hallucinations in those who ate them. Pawn-shop owners in Texas noted that more people were pawning their belongings in order to buy gas. A member of MiniKiss, a KISS tribute band made up of dwarves, denied that he had tried to sneak past security at a Las Vegas concert of Tiny Kiss, a KISS tribute band made up of three little people and a 350-pound woman. In the Netherlands authorities fined an advertiser for placing advertisements on sheep blankets. "If we start with sheep," said Bert Kuiper, the mayor of Skarsterlan, "then next it's the cows and horses." Researchers discovered that the buried lakes of Antarctica are connected to one another by secret rivers. From Harper's Weekly